Claudia Christian (Brenda the stripper) likes to tell two stories about her experience in this film. First is the design of her wardrobe: the producers found her breasts visually inadequate, and so designed her costumes to emphasize her buttocks instead. Second is her eye injury: the material exploding from a prop gun scratched her cornea painfully. Because of this, whenever she had to fire a prop gun on Babilonia 5 (1993) she would instinctively turn her face away when pulling the trigger, even though this was unnecessary because the Babylon 5 prop guns did not really fire, as all visual effects were to be added in later.
Michael Nouri turned down the role of Martin Riggs in Arma mortal (1987) which was made the same year as this film, set in Los Angeles, and also a buddy cop film like this film. The role went to Mel Gibson.
During an interview on TNT in 1994, Claudia Christian mentioned this film as being her prior experience with aliens. She said this qualified her to work on Babilonia 5 (1993).